Twitter Revenue Expected to Almost Double in 2012

While revenues are up, the company is not in the league of Facebook.

It's been about a year since Jack Dorsey returned to Twitter and Dick Costolo took over as the company's CEO.

The two took over in the midst of a debate on whether Twitter could actually ever make money or whether the company had a business model at all.

Now online intel firm eMarketer <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/31/twitters-revenue-expected-to-nearly-double-in-2012/
" target="_blank">tells Venturebeat that it projects that the San Francisco-based startups revenue will jump to $259.9 million in 2012, up from $139.5 million last year.

And while the numbers pale in comparison to what Facebook's revenues are at, most analysts never expected Twitter to compete against the Menlo Park-based social-networking company.

Twitter is not expected to break $1 billion in revenue until 2016. A number Facebook has already surpassed.

Twitter makes most of its revenue off of ads, including promoted tweets, where companies can purchase the ability to send a tweet to people who do not necessarily follow them.

The company also makes some revenue by giving access to its API.

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